Ah, those care-free days of coming of age in 1630. The communal banishings, the religious zealotry, the lustful eyes of your curious younger brother, the isolation, the superstition and the risk of starvation in the rural expanse of a new…
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Deadpool: The Sweet Smell Of Carnage
As a teenager, my world revolved around action movies. My best friend Jesse and I craved bloodshed and clever one-liners. Robocop thrilled when Officer Murphy’s hand got blown off with a shotgun blast, and his wrist pulsated blood for a split…
Read more →Joy: A Good Flick In Spite Of Its Hollywood Trailer
Some people are too big and talented to easily categorize. Joy Mangano, and the biopic Joy, clearly were too much for Hollywood to comprehend and winnow down into a simple movie trailer. Just out on DVD, Joy is the story…
Read more →Nine Cinematic Innings of Baseball Glory
As any red-blooded American male who lives in the frozen north will tell you, the best part about April is baseball’s opening day. It is the first sign that winter is finally coming to an end. It won’t be long…
Read more →Spectre: Is Bond Fading into the Sunset?
After 53 years and 24 films, is the James Bond franchise showing its age? We take an in-depth ook at 2015’s Spectre and star Daniel Craig and ask where the cinematic superspy series goes from here.
Read more →The Golden Age of Screwball Comedies
Wild plots, crazy characters and rapid-fire dialogue marked the screwball comedies of the 1930s and ’40s. For his MovieFanFare debut, writer Nathaniel Cerf examines the genre where such stars as Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck and others showed off their funny bones.
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